Ligand binding properties of two Brugia malayi fatty acid and retinol (FAR) binding proteins and their vaccine efficacies against challenge infection in gerbils

• Bin Zhan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Zhan, Sridhar Arumugam

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Sridhar Arumugam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Zhan, Sridhar Arumugam

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Emery Pharma, Alameda CA, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

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• Malcolm W. Kennedy,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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• Nancy Tricoche,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Lu-Yun Lian,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NMR Centre for Structural Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Oluwatoyin A. Asojo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Sasisekhar Bennuru,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States of America

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• Maria Elena Bottazzi,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Peter J. Hotez,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Sara Lustigman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: slustigman@nybc.org (SL); tklei1@lsu.edu (TRK)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2389-6113

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• Thomas R. Klei

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: slustigman@nybc.org (SL); tklei1@lsu.edu (TRK)

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

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